WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 8506, 4 May 1891, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

(By Biijcbio Tblbobaph.—Oopybiohi.l [Special to Pbess Association.) A DEMAND FOR EIGHT HOURS. NEW YORK, May 2. Ten thousand miners at Illinois and carpenters and builders in Pittsburg have gone out on strike, demanding the adoption of the eight hours system. [Pbb Pbrss Association.] NEW YORK, May 2. One hundred thousand men thronghout the United States have gone on strike for eight hours. LONDON, May 2. The Shipping Federation have ceased supplying mealß to employes, and have informed the permanent bands that they are certain of two months' work. LONDON, May 3. (Received M»y 4,1891, at 10.35 a.m.) Three thousand carpenters in London have struck for forty-seven hours per week. WASHINGTON, May 4. Ten thousand lowa miners have joined I the Illinois strike. ADELAIDE, May 3. In consequence of the dispute over the question of freedom of contract the bakers have struck; but no difficulty has been experienced in filling their places. BISHOP JULIUS ON TRADES UNIONS. Bishop Julius delivered an address to trade unionists in the Christchnrch Cathedral yesterday, which was crowded. He said the tendency of the present age was to abandon individualism in favor of Socialism, He was a Socialist because he was a Christian, and Socialism was taught in the New Testament. He did not think that trades unions were sufficient to cure the evils of the present social system, though they had done good in the past despite the fact that their methods had sometimes been faulty. What lay at the root of all the evils of the present system waa sin, and no system of Socialism, however complete, would bring happiness unless it was accompanied by righteousness. He feared that the working classes did not bestow sufficient care on their children's training. THE UNEMPLOYED. As stated in these columns last Friday, the additional work on the Oatlins River line will be all laid out towards the end of the present month. The surveyors went down to the locality by this morning's express, and their orders are to push on the survey with all possible haste. As Mr Uasher informed our reporter on Friday, probably from fifty to sixty men will be taken on for the work. The new section will be within easy reach of the main road, so that all food supplies will be readily available at moderate rates. The work now being prosecuted has been divided into sections suitable for parties of ten or twelve men, In the first instance the sections of work were arranged as equally as possible, and their distribution among the different gangs pf workmen was decided by lot, so that there can be no question raised as to partiality being shown to anybody. The men are likely to do well ont of the work.